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I've been using Fedora for about a year, so I know a little, but not a lot. This is my first time actually posting on the forums.

The set of updates from a few days ago broke my system. I tried to cheat and just reinstall. After a yum update and a reboot, I followed leigh's instructions for akmod. Another reboot, and I'm back to the original crash. I get to the end of the loadscreen, see the background for a few seconds, then get the "system cannot recover" message. I've run nvidia-xconfig, and nvidia shows up with lsmod.

Yellowman's link suggests that I shouldn't be using 295.40. How do I change that? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Installed Fedora 16 with KDE on a new laptop drive (750 GB) is the only drive in the system. All updates have been loaded.

The nvidia drivers work great on the LCD (WUXGA). Everything works. When I put the system into a docking station the external monitor is not recognized. None of the ports is seen. Upon power on the inital grub boot info appears on the external monitor, but when it goes to the login screen the external monitor is blank. I can open the laptop and see the login screen. When I log in and go to System Settings the "Display and Monitor" shows only the LCD monitor.

Before I added the nvidia drivers it worked on the external monitor and the Display & Monitor in System Settings showed all the ports on the docking station.

Finally I was able to get my gnome-shell running a couple of days ago. After repeating the process again and again and getting the same results I tried something else, thinking that maybe the problem was in the packages' version:

Finally I was able to get my gnome-shell running a couple of days ago. After repeating the process again and again and getting the same results I tried something else, thinking that maybe the problem was in the packages' version.

Many thanks. This does explain a lot. I have been able to get another system, a T520 with an Optimus card, working. I had the set the UEFI display to integrated and disable the OS detection of the Optimus card. Then the standard drivers worked. That is, do not load the drivers as in this guide. Work will continue on the W701 and your suggestions will be tried. F17 will be out soon and it will be interesting to see how that works.

Has anyone been successful at installing and following these instruction on an nVidia based MacBook Pro?

I don't seem able to avoid having KMS, as proved by the boot in single user mode where I can see, despite all my efforts, the console come up at native resolution, while using the nvidia driver... While text looks pretty, I am unalbe to start X (system hang), and I don't seem to be able to prevent this from happening. I boot Linux in an unconventional way, but it is still possible for me to parse commands to the kernel, however rdblacklist=nouveau and nouveau.modeset=0 does not seem to prevent this.

Plus lspci -vv states that the driver in use is nvidia, not nouveau. I'm using the latest RPMFusion available package (295.49).

Would 'nomodeset' be of some use still?

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I have second display connected via Analog Vga LED TV HD and want to use twinmode when using my desktop on LCD Monitor i want to watch hd video on the LED TV display... Trying lots of setups with nvidia-settings but all failed or not fitted well also it corrupted my xorg.conf to loose GLX ( same as nvidia-xconfig) Can you suggest some xorg settings for my setup ? or Any other people who using same like setup please write your suggestions...

Wondering: supposing the driver is installed and working in F16 via the instructions in the first post, will it, in theory at least, be safe to upgrade to F17 via preupgrade when F17 Final is released?

Sorry if this is already covered in the thread. I tried reading backwards, but wasn't able to make it through everything.